Posts Tagged "Student Life at the Beach"

By Charlie Harper Throughout high school and into college I worked on a summer camp staff that always had a rain plan. They always had a rain plan because rain could not disrupt the camper experience. One such contingency…

I have a love/hate relationship with church signs- particularly those with the classic changeable marquee. On the one hand, they provide congregations with a highly visible, inexpensive means of promoting its opportunities in the community, and can often double as…

When spreading the Gospel to a person with a disability, it’s not about whether you have the handout in large print for the visually impaired or a signer for the hearing impaired. Rather, it’s about providing such an environment where…

“How can I be more like Judas today?” This is probably the one thought that doesn’t enter your mind while you’re doing youth ministry. But if you stop and think about it, Judas had it all going for him. He…

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with “events.” As a student participating in events like summer camp, Disciple Now, Passion Conferences, and the like, I always left feeling on top of the world. The feeling would last a week, maybe…

It’s no secret that it’s easy for a believer to get frustrated with the entertainment industry. There are times that I simply want to pick up my television and chuck it right through the front window of my living room…

It’s no secret that manhood, at least popularly speaking, has become a mockery. Network television routinely caricatures men as blithering idiots, woefully incapable of taking responsibility for themselves and wholly devoted to the pursuit of comfort, leisure, and no-strings-attached sex. …

Being a fifth grader is a big thing. You are at the top of the Elementary school totem poll. When I spend time with another Children’s ministry, usually I can tell who the fifth graders are, especially the boys. They…